Another interesting aspect of their music is that they manage to adress many modern political and cultural topics, like the L.A. riots by picking applicable texts from the 11th and 12th centuries. Their seasoned professionalism on the instruments of yore as well as modern day studio equipment, combined with the classically trained voice of Hausen, makes their take on both pop music and classical music quite refreshing.

The name QNTAL (pronounced: cantal) is an imaginary word that came to Hausen during a lucid dream. The project ended in 1999 when Horn called it quits. He continued more or less along the same lines with the Helium Volta project.